Bar Admissions
• State Bar of Tennessee
Sherry Wilds is an experienced disability civil rights attorney who has represented clients with disabilities for over 20 years in access to services cases under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and education cases under the Individuals with Disabilities Educations Act (IDEA). Prior to receiving her Juris Doctor from Nashville School of Law, she received a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction and a Bachelor of Science in Special Education from Carson-Newman University.
Sherry has spent her career working to provide opportunities for individuals with disabilities to achieve their potential in workplace, community, and educational environments. She taught students with disabilities in public schools for ten years and served as an Educational Diagnostician for four years in the Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt. As an attorney, she received the B. Riney Green Award from Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services for her promotion of state-wide collaboration and access to justice. Her collaborative efforts and her client cases resulted in systemic improvements to legislation on provision of anti-seizure medication in school settings and protections from dangerous misuse of restraint and seclusion of students with disabilities as well as changes to dangerous and discriminatory policies in health care settings.
